• Types of Words

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• abbreviation


• acronym


• ambigram


• anacronym


• antagonym


• anthroponym


• antonym


• aptronym


• archaism


• attributive expletive


• autoantonym


• autonym


• backronym


• binary antonyms


• buzzword


• capitonym


• charactonym


• cognate object


• confusables


• confusage


• contraction


• contranym


• contrived acronym


• counterterm


• covering word


• daffynition


• demonym


• demonymic


• dis legomenon


• echoism


• eggcorn


• endonym


• eponym


• etymon


• exact synonyms


• exonym


• expletive


• foreignism


• genteelism


• ghost word


• gradable antonyms


• hapax legomenon


• heteronym


• hieronym


• homonym


• honorific


• hyperonym


• hyponym


• indefinite numeral


• initialism


• Janus word


• localism


• malapropism


• matronym


• metonym


• metronymic


• minced oath


• mutated plural


• neologism


• neology


• nonce word


• oxymoron


• palindrome


• paronyms


• patronymic


• phonesthemes


• phonesthesia


• plurale tantum


• pojmanym


• portmanteau word


• protogram


• protologism


• pseudo-acronym


• recursive acronym


• retronym


• Siamese twins


• sideroxylon


• singulare tantum


• sniglet


• spoonerism


• syllable word


• synonym


• syntactic expletive


• tetrakis legomenon


• theronym


• toponym


• tris legomenon


• vague word


• vogue word


• weasel word